predation

How To Use predation In A Sentence

• Young keeps a level tone throughout, tempering the tale of depredation with a dry wit.
• Dense vegetation may conceal the nests and reduce the risk of predation.
• Some of these isolated populations are subject to predation, others to starvation, flooding, severe winters or summer drought.
• To examine possible effects of predators on clam growth, I first compared variation in clam growth rate among habitats with different predation pressure, and between predator-exclusion cages and uncaged controls.
• What are we going to do to defend ourselves from illegal civil liberties depredations?
• I report here an observation of attempted predation by a tayra in the western Amazon, in Acre, Brazil.
• However, egg predation also had a large impact on geese and this effect was highly variable according to the abundance of another prey, lemmings.
• However, an economic model that does not include the creation of wealth is about as valuable as an ecological model that does not include reproduction or predation.
• MacGregor --- I carena wha kens it --- And Rob had soon a gallant band; and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation to the south o 'the Hieland line, why, if ony heritor or farmer wad pay him four punds Scots out of each hundred punds of valued rent, whilk was doubtless a moderate consideration, Rob engaged to keep them scaithless; Rob Roy
• Rat predation had reduced one of the largest breeding colonies of Xantus murrelets to just a few pairs, earning the seabird a potential spot on the federal Endangered Species List.